UPDATED with latest: It’s a new calendar year, and film awards season is taking shape — time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise. Here is a list of awards shows and nominations dates ahead. Check back often for updates. January 3: Palm Springs International Film Awards 4…

Tom Stoppard, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Shakespeare in Love and 5x Tony-winning playwright, has died. He was 88. United Agents announced that Stoppard died “peacefully” on Saturday at his Dorset, England home, where he was surrounded by family. “He will be remembered for his…

The Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced the Nominating Committee for the 2025-2026 Broadway season, with newcomer nominators including Jaja’s African Hair Braiding playwright Jocelyn Bioh, Prayer For The French Republic playwright Joshua Harmon and actor-director-playwright BD…

After reuniting with some of Elsbeth‘s biggest guests for a star-studded musical Season 2 finale, Carrie Preston is ready to apprehend more of the Great White Way. While attending last weekend’s 78th Tony Awards, the Emmy-winning actress teased who from Broadway she’d like to work with on an…

Smash has become the first Broadway show to close following a 2025 Tony Award shut out. The musical will play its final performance on Sunday, June 22, after 32 previews and 84 regular performances at the Imperial Theatre. Nominated for two Tonys – Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role…

The 78th Annual Tony Awards delivered its largest broadcast audience in six years on Sunday night. The 2025 ceremony, hosted by Cynthia Erivo, boasted 4.85M viewers on CBS, per live + same-day Nielsen data. That’s up 38% over last year’s audience of 3.53M. At just over three hours long, the…

The 78th annual Tony Awards were generally free of snubs and shockers, but there were enough little surprises to keep things more than interesting. Oh, Mary! didn’t win Best Play? The Audra vs. Nicole contest tipped which way?? And Patti LuPone made her entrance how exactly? But more than…

Since 1949, the Tony Awards have recognized an array of remarkable shows with the coveted title of Best Musical. Show-stopping classics from Cats, The Phantom of the Opera and Les Misérables to contemporary toe-tappers such as Rent, The Book of Mormon and Hamilton have won the Broadway honor over the years. Most…

Since 1947, the Tony Awards have recognized an array of remarkable shows with the coveted title of Best Play. From timeless classics like Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire and Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman to modern-day masters such as Alan Bennett’s The History Boys and Michael Morpurgo’s War Hor…

Now that’s a happy ending. Maybe Happy Ending won Best Musical and five other trophies Sunday to lead the 78th annual Tony Awards, and Purpose was named Best Play at Radio City Music Hall in New York. Darren Criss took Lead Actor in a Musical for Maybe Happy Ending, and Nicole Scherzinger…

With quite a bit of critical consensus on who and what should win the prizes at the 78th annual Tony Awards at Radio City, Sunday’s show had the potential for being either a get-in-line and hand-out-the-trophies we all expect, or a blow-my-mind-who-could-have-seen-that-coming evening. The former…

In tip-top shape, as if no time has passed since its 2015 debut off-Broadway and immense success thereafter, the original company of Hamilton reunited for a rousing performance featuring an intricate medley of songs from the hit soundtrack, bringing the audience to its feet. Host and Tony winner…